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Fodor's Europe 1983 Fodor's Modern Guides; $12.95 This classic series, founded by Eugene Fodor in 1936, is sober and serious, at times more British Victorian in outlook than modern American. (Describing Europeans in his introduction, British Writer John Ardagh intones: "What does Europe really have in common, beyond geography?... Above all, we comprise the great Caucasian family of white peoples ...") Fodor's is especially trustworthy on hotels and restaurants. A knowledgeable, well-organized, basically middle-class peregrination through 33 European countries, colonies and principalities that leaves no worthy stones unturned, even if they...
Leading Catholic clergymen have been increasingly vocal in expressing their misgivings about the wisdom of the hunger strike. Father Denis Paul, a chaplain at Maze Prison, has called on the I.R.A. to end the fasts. The Most Rev. Cahal Daly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in the Irish Republic, has condemned the "sick charade of guns and volleys fired over dead bodies at funerals." After two young Protestant police officers were killed last week by an I.R.A. land mine, Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Primate of All Ireland, declared: "This act must be called by its proper...
...Graham-Camp bell, a medievalist at the University of London: "Nothing of this quality and importance has been found in Ireland in this century." Although it will take a year to restore the chalice, which was caked with a greenish mold, experts are already comparing it to the famed Ardagh chalice, discovered in 1868 in County Limerick and often described as the most beautiful in the world...
...Tipperary chalice is slightly larger than the Ardagh and may have been crafted in the same artisans' workshop. It is also believed to be some 50 years older...
...Ardagh chalice did not have a paten or strainer with...